History Body

	USS WAINWRIGHT HISTORY PRESENTATION Back in 1986 I started to assemble my history during my days on the USS Wainwright. In the early years of this association more history came to me. Since then others have promoted the idea of having as much as possible collected, indexed and made presentable on the association website. This has become a History Committee project and each shipmate is requested to participate. JC Carlson, USS Wainwright Veterans Association Founder. This collection of history is also intended to be made available in a manner where you can keep this in your sea chest or trunk and there it will be found by your children and grandchildren. Then they will have an idea about your involvement in Navy History. WHAT IS BEING COLLECTED Awards images and descriptions; Awards are the recognitions that the Wainwright officers and crews received. CO info . . . these are the photos of the Commanding Officers and their brief biographies. Command History Reports . . . OPNAV 5750 . . . History as synopsized by the CO and submitted to the Navy History Center, each year. Family grams . . . These were those info flyers that the CO sent home to your parents. These kept the folks at home informed as to what the ship was doing or had done. History Chronology . . . This is the file on where the Wainwright was in time and place. Images . . . Images of things and objects. Also cartoons and art. News Media . . . these are news clipping copies, or magazine articles of the Wainwright. Photos . . . These are photos of the ship overall, or photos of the shipmates at their work station, or Group photos. These are photos taken only by the shipmates. Stories and Narratives . . . These are those short stories where we write a couple of paragraphs about some subject that needs noting. These are kind of like 2 paragraph sea stories. ASSEMBLY These history items are assembled into the years they happened. There will be an info and instructions directory at the top of the years sub-directories. Then the history is presented in sub-directories by years. At the end of the year directories will be the instructions to send in your info. FILE NAMING This will be the way files will be named. The shipmate sending items will have these named using this file naming convention. YYYY . . . The first are the year of the item. It is your best guess, or you have it checked out by another shipmate. Example YYYY = 1967. Place . . . If you take picture of the ship, which port was the photo taken in. If it is a photo of yourself or a group of mates what working/berthing space was this taken in. Then who sent this in. Examples = 1967 DANANG HARBOR JCC 1967 GUN DIRECTOR JC CARLSON 1968 YOKOSUKA SHIPS PARTY JCC 1968 HONG KONG CHINA FLEET CLUB JCC Abbreviations should be used; Follow standard Navy abbreviations practice. Paper items . . . If you have copies of plan of the days, family grams, & other item of this kind. Use the File naming practice as seen on the web site or if you have copies of the disk. OBTAINING A COPY OF THE DISK Copies of the history will be made available upon request during the reunion. You must provide you own disk. SENDING IN THE HISTORY THAT YOU HAVE FOUND You need to send in your information on computer disk. If you do not have computer ability you will have a highest quality copy of your paper item made. Or a photo copy you do not want returned. If it is a photo then you work with your kid to have it scanned. That or your buddy from the VFW, or such. You may have to take these to Kinko's. Do not send in you disk until you have more that one item, if possible. These are not returned. Mailing instructions are not yet available. Standby . . .

USS WAINWRIGHT HISTORY PRESENTATION

Back in 1986 I started to assemble my history during my days on the USS Wainwright. In the early years of this association more history came to me. Since then others have promoted the idea of having as much as possible collected, indexed and made presentable on the association website. This has become a History Committee project and each shipmate is requested to participate. JC Carlson, USS Wainwright Veterans Association Founder.

This collection of history is also intended to be made available in a manner where you can keep this in your sea chest or trunk and there it will be found by your children and grandchildren. Then they will have an idea about your involvement in Navy History.

WHAT IS BEING COLLECTED

Awards images and descriptions; Awards are the recognitions that the Wainwright officers and crews received.

CO info . . . these are the photos of the Commanding Officers and their brief biographies.

Command History Reports . . . OPNAV 5750 . . . History as synopsized by the CO and submitted to the Navy History Center, each year.

Family grams . . . These were those info flyers that the CO sent home to your parents. These kept the folks at home informed as to what the ship was doing or had done.

History Chronology . . . This is the file on where the Wainwright was in time and place.

Images . . . Images of things and objects. Also cartoons and art.

News Media . . . these are news clipping copies, or magazine articles of the Wainwright.

Photos . . . These are photos of the ship overall, or photos of the shipmates at their work station, or Group photos. These are photos taken only by the shipmates.

Stories and Narratives . . . These are those short stories where we write a couple of paragraphs about some subject that needs noting. These are kind of like 2 paragraph sea stories.

ASSEMBLY

These history items are assembled into the years they happened. There will be an info and instructions directory at the top of the years sub-directories.

Then the history is presented in sub-directories by years.

At the end of the year directories will be the instructions to send in your info.

FILE NAMING

This will be the way files will be named. The shipmate sending items will have these named using this file naming convention.

YYYY . . . The first are the year of the item. It is your best guess, or you have it checked out by another shipmate. Example YYYY = 1967.

Place . . . If you take picture of the ship, which port was the photo taken in. If it is a photo of yourself or a group of mates what working/berthing space was this taken in. Then who sent this in.

Examples = 1967 DANANG HARBOR JCC
                    1967 GUN DIRECTOR JC CARLSON
                    1968 YOKOSUKA SHIPS PARTY JCC
                    1968 HONG KONG CHINA FLEET CLUB JCC

Abbreviations should be used; Follow standard Navy abbreviations practice.

Paper items . . . If you have copies of plan of the days, family grams, & other item of this kind. Use the File naming practice as seen on the web site or if you have copies of the disk.

OBTAINING A COPY OF THE DISK

Copies of the history will be made available upon request during the reunion. You must provide you own disk.

SENDING IN THE HISTORY THAT YOU HAVE FOUND

You need to send in your information on computer disk.

If you do not have computer ability you will have a highest quality copy of your paper item made. Or a photo copy you do not want returned.

If it is a photo then you work with your kid to have it scanned. That or your buddy from the VFW, or such. You may have to take these to Kinko's.

Do not send in you disk until you have more that one item, if possible. These are not returned.

Mailing instructions are not yet available. Standby . . .